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Add permission to view summary of private doc possible?

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    derekm Reply #1, 19 years, 1 month ago
    To be more specific, is it possible to password protect entire documents yet allow a web user who does not posses permissions to view the entire article the ability to view the introtext and view menu links to other articles that have restricted permissions?

    I am currently using ditto to retrieve the summary field of the document like so:
    [[Ditto? &parents=`51` &tpl=`frontpagesummary` &sortBy=`menuindex` &sortDir=`ASC` &display=`all`]]

    the tpl:
    [+phx:if=`[+myPhoto+]`:isnot=``:then=`<p class="mug-photo"><img src="[+myPhoto+]" /></p>`:else=` `+]
[+phx:if=`[+cutline+]`:isnot=``:then=`<p class="cutline">[+cutline+]" </p>`:else=` `+]
<h1>[+pagetitle+]</h1> 
<p>[+introtext+]</p>
<p class="more-story"><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+longtitle+]">Read full story...</a></p>

    "51" is the container that hold the articles. Is there a way to override permissions to view certain fields of a document? Basically, the entire site requires a subscription to access the full content, I just don’t want the page to be completely blank to users who do not possess the required permissions to view the content.

    I can see from searching that this has been brought up before, but can’t find any solutions?
    e.g. http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,13823.0.html
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      derekm Reply #2, 19 years, 1 month ago
      So I thought I had found the solution using &hidePrivate in the ditto call, but it doesn’t work at all. I am using Ditto 2.0.2.

      Here’s the ditto call:
      [[Ditto? &parents=`51` &hidePrivate=`0` &tpl=`frontpagesummary` &sortBy=`menuindex` &sortDir=`ASC` &display=`all`]]


      Am I missing something? huh
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        derekm Reply #3, 19 years, 1 month ago
        No ideas? I’m curious as to why the &hidePrivate parameter is not working as it should be. Am I misunderstanding the purpose of this parameter?

        Please help?
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          edge Reply #4, 19 years, 1 month ago
          is &hidePrivate=`0` not the default, should it not be &hidePrivate=`1` although I may be wrong
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            derekm Reply #5, 19 years, 1 month ago
            Thanks for replying edge. As I understood from the ditto documentation, 0 shows private documents, 1 hides private documents. So it should be set right. I don’t know where I’m going wrong here.
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              derekm Reply #6, 19 years, 1 month ago
              So I take it that this is impossible to implement. Is there any other way to do this like make a separate document that contains a summary that will not be set as private then go to the private page when the "Read full story" link is clicked? It sounds like a bunch of extra work but I’m desperate at this point.
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                sottwell Reply #7, 19 years, 1 month ago
                Why not use a custom Ditto template that displays what you want, with no "read more" or any other link to the news page?
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                  derekm Reply #8, 19 years, 1 month ago
                  Well, it’s for a online version of a local weekly newspaper. The point is to entice the end user to want to subscribe. I will already have to make 30-40 article documents a week plus all the other content that is open to the public, I don’t want to do any more work than what is necessary. Especially being that I am the one that is responsible for the layout of the offline print version as well. I was just hoping to automate the process as much as possible.
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                    dev_cw Reply #9, 19 years, 1 month ago
                    Is the container/folder document published? In this case you may need seeThruUnpub.
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                      derekm Reply #10, 19 years, 1 month ago
                      No, the containers are not published so they would not show in the navigation menu. I tried appending the seeThruUnpub parameter to my ditto call. No luck. Here is the structure of the documents/containers:



                      Ditto call:
                      [[Ditto? &parents=`51` &seeThruUnpub=`1` &hidePrivate=`0` &tpl=`frontpagesummary` &sortBy=`menuindex` &sortDir=`ASC` &display=`all`]]